Stop Propagating The Learning Styles Myth Summary

Paul A. Kirschner’s “Stop Propagating the learning styles myth.”

Summary. Kirschner explains that learning myths are ideas that are pointless to our education system, by having many academics analyse student’s performance in learning through tests, asking about their learning styles and comparing their answers to their test results. At first glance, Kirschner just seems like any other professor who wants to help his students. He looks into the ‘educations myths, such as; learning styles, the digital native, multitasking, the learning pyramid etc.,’ with the gathered results from his many learning style tests, Kirschner develops this article, questioning “do learners really know best?’’ He challenges teachers and trainers alike to understand

I believe this is due to the fact I am a student who, after 13 years of schooling, understands what techniques work best for me when it comes to learning. I am definitely a right-brained person. I am ruled by my active imagination and empathetic personality, which is why I want to be an author/humanitarian. I get to experience all these different lives and fall in love with all these different characters and build this amazing world all in my head. whenever I am bored with this world, I am able to escape into mine, which is much more interesting. But when I was younger, I thought writing was only a hobby, so I was going to be surgeon. Helping people while getting to rummage around inside their intestines? Amazing. While I am still a die-hard Grey’s Anatomy fan who believes I could diagnose you with a brain tumor if you have runny nose, (it could be making your brain push down onto the cervical vertebra causing spinal fluid to leak through your nasal cavity,) I had to give up my doctor dream due to my lack of left-brain qualities. Science and maths classes were the bane of my existence. Sitting and watching a teacher write many confusing equations on a white board was the most boring thing to my 15 year old self. I wanted to get up and actually do something, for science I wanted to throw a bunch of chemicals together and see what happened, and for maths my imagination was much to large.

I think they need to test their theories on children or university students. People who have not been through any schooling or people who have been through a lot. Teenagers are quite annoying (I can say that since I am one) and they will usually all say they are visual learners so they get to watch videos in class. Every teenager wants to walk into their classroom to see a YouTube clip or documentary being set up. It is the closest thing we get to pure happiness, other than being told we are spending class in the library.

So, while I respect Kirschner for his belief, I do not agree. Every brain is different, some people prefer summer while others prefer winter. Some people fear heights while others fear needles. Some people like animals while others are crazy. If nobody feels the same, we cannot assume that everybody learns the same. It is a known fact that students learn better in smaller classes, that way teachers are able to connect with the students and work closer together, would it not be a given that students who learn in similar ways should be put together in a class with a teacher who teachers that